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Strachey, J. (1961). The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, Volume XIX (1923-1925): The Ego and the Id and Other Works. The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, Volume XIX (1923-1925): The Ego and the Id and Other Works, 1-308. The Hogarth Press and the Institute of Psychoanalysis, London.

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Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing: The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, Volume XIX (1923-1925): The Ego and the Id and Other Works

Strachey, J. (1961). The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, Volume XIX (1923-1925): The Ego and the Id and Other Works, 1-308. The Hogarth Press and the Institute of Psychoanalysis, London.

[SES0a1]The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, Volume XIX (1923-1925): The Ego and the Id and Other Works

Translated from the German under the General Editorship of James Strachey

In Collaboration with:
Anna Freud

Assisted by:
Alix Strachey and Alan Tyson

[SES0a2]Contents

VOLUME NINETEEN
THE EGO AND THE ID (1923)
		page
Editor's Introduction		3
Preface		12
I	Consciousness and What is Unconscious	13
II	The Ego and the Id	19
III	The Ego and the Super-Ego (Ego Ideal)	28
IV	The Two Classes of Instincts	40
V	The Dependent Relationships of the Ego	48
Appendix A. The Descriptive and the Dynamic Unconscious		60
Appendix B. The Great Reservoir of Libido		63
A SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY DEMONOLOGICAL NEUROSIS (1923 [1922])
Editor's Note		69
Introduction		72
I	The Story of Christoph Haizmann the Painter	73
II	The Motive for the Pact with the Devil	79
III	The Devil as a Father-Substitute	83
IV	The Two Bonds	93
V	The Further Course of the Neurosis	100
REMARKS ON THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF DREAM-INTERPRETATION (1923 [1922])		109
SOME ADDITIONAL NOTES ON DREAM-INTERPRETATION AS A WHOLE (1925)
Editor's Note		125
(A)	The Limits to the Possibility of Interpretation	127
(B)	Moral Responsibility for the Content of Dreams	131
(C)	The Occult Significance of Dreams	135

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		page
THE INFANTILE GENITAL ORGANIZATION: AN INTERPOLATION INTO THE THEORY OF SEXUALITY (1923)		141
NEUROSIS AND PSYCHOSIS (1924 [1923])		149
THE ECONOMIC PROBLEM OF MASOCHISM (1924)
Editor's Note		157
The Economic Problem of Masochism		159
THE DISSOLUTION OF THE OEDIPUS COMPLEX (1924)		173
THE LOSS OF REALITY IN NEUROSIS AND PSYCHOSIS (1924)		183
A SHORT ACCOUNT OF PSYCHO-ANALYSIS (1924 [1923])		191
THE RESISTANCES TO PSYCHO-ANALYSIS (1925 [1924])		213
Appendix: Extract from Schopenhauer's The World as Will and Idea		223
A NOTE UPON THE ‘MYSTIC WRITING-PAD’ (1925 [1924])		227
NEGATION (1925)		235
SOME PSYCHICAL CONSEQUENCES OF THE ANATOMICAL DISTINCTION BETWEEN THE SEXES (1925)
Editor's Note		243
Some Psychical Consequences of the Anatomical Distinction between the Sexes		248
JOSEF POPPER-LYNKEUS AND THE THEORY OF DREAMS (1923)		261
DR. SÁNDOR FERENCZI (ON HIS 50th BIRTHDAY) (1923)		267
PREFACE TO AICHHORN'S WAYWARD YOUTH (1925)		273

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		page
JOSEF BREUER (1925)		279
SHORTER WRITINGS (1922-25)		281
Preface to Raymond de Saussure's The Psycho-Analytic Method		283
Preface to Max Eitingon's Report on the Berlin Psycho-Analytical Policlinic (March 1920 to June 1922)		285
Letter to Fritz Wittels		286
Letter to Señor Luis Lopez-Ballesteros y de Torres		289
Letter to Le Disque Vert		290
Letter to the Editor of the Jewish Press Centre in Zurich		291
On the Occasion of the Opening of the Hebrew University		292
Editorial Changes in the Zeitschrift		293
BIBLIOGRAPHY AND AUTHOR INDEX		295
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS		308
GENERAL INDEX		309*

ILLUSTRATIONS
The First Appearance of the Devil to Christoph Haizmann		Frontispiece
The Second Appearance of the Devil to Christoph Haizmann		Facing page 69
From the Trophaeum Mariano-Cellense, MS. 14,086 in the Austrian National Library. Reproduced by kind permission of the Keeper of the Department of Manuscripts.

* [SES0a3]Not Available in PEP

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[SES0a4]List of Abbreviations

[SES0a5]G.S. = Freud, Gesammelte Schriften (12 vols.), Vienna, 1924-34

[SES0a6]G.W. = Freud, Gesammelte Werke (18 vols.), London, from 1940

[SES0a7]C.P. = Freud, Collected Papers (5 vols.), London, 1924-50

[SES0a8]Standard Ed. = Freud, Standard Edition (24 vols.), London, from 1953

[SES0a9]Neurosenlehre und Technik = Freud, Schriften zur Neurosenlehre und zur psychoanalytischen Technik (1913-1926), Vienna, 1931

[SES0a10]Psychoanalyse der Neurosen = Freud, Studien zur Psychoanalyse der Neurosen aus den Jahren 1913-1925, Vienna, 1926

[SES0a11]Sexualtheorie und Traumlehre = Freud, Kleine Schriften zur Sexualtheorie und zur Traumlehre, Vienna, 1931

[SES0a12]Theoretische Schriften = Freud, Theoretische Schriften (1911-1925), Vienna, 1931

[SES0a13]Traumlehre = Freud, Kleine Beiträge zur Traumlehre, Vienna, 1925

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Article Citation [Who Cited This?]

Strachey, J. (1961). [SES0a1]The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, Volume XIX (1923-1925): The Ego and the Id and Other Works. 1-308. The Hogarth Press and the Institute of Psychoanalysis, London.

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